First published in 1977 by Game Designer’s Workshop, Traveller is a popular tabletop role-playing game that takes place across the vast expanse of outer space. Unlike the high-fantasy tropes of Dungeons & Dragons, Traveller offered a technology-based sci-fi experience heavily influenced by the works of Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, and Jerry Pournelle. Players take on the roles of military officers, spies, or merchants navigating a vast, feudalistic interstellar empire known as the Third Imperium. This guidebook and accompanying sheet were issued by the Judges Guild, Incorporated of Decatur, Illinois, in 1980 as a supplement to the base Traveller game. A series of maps offers a hex-based overview of the celestial geography of the Ley Sector. Planetary statistics, intergalactic transportation routes, encounter tables, and other pertinent information needed by the DM (Referee, in this case) to craft an engaging adventure are included.
